Kanye West Explains Why 'Jesus Is King' Once Again Didn't Drop When It Was Supposed To

By Zach Seemayer‍ 11:08 PM PDT, October 24, 2019

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Twitter exploded just after midnight on the East Coast when Kanye West's hotly anticipated album Jesus Is King -- which was really, truly, no, seriously, supposed to drop at midnight -- didn't actually get released.

Despite promising that Jesus Is King would drop at midnight in a tweet sent Thursday afternoon -- a level of commitment that made this time seem more real than the other times the album was supposed to drop over the past two months -- West revealed, more than an hour after the fact, that the album still needed work and that he was busy fixing it.

"I was asking people to fast during the album. There were times where I was asking people not to have premarital sex while they were working on the album," he shared, acknowledging how "radical" the request was.

"There were times where I went to people that were working on other projects and said, 'Can you just work and focus on this?'" he added. "I thought if we could all focus and fast -- families who pray together stay together."